Cliff Martinez Quotes

I didn't want to box myself into writing just rock music because you can try to force it into moments that don't want it.

I have different sounds... I don't want to be just that girl that sings reggaeton or trap music.

I've got so many musical personalities, I could probably get treatment for it.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

I know that people think of me in terms of Latin music and that's wonderful, that's my heritage, that's who I am, but there's so much more to me and my music.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.

I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little bit - maybe of my own doing - and in a way where I felt like I was sort of falsely defined. What my music was being called wasn't really the music I was always listening to.

With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae.

If I'm feeling like rock, we'll do some of that, and if I'm feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that's typically how I record and write and play music and anything else.

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.

Growing up in Miami, having these different cultures and being inspired in so many ways musically has let me have a very long career, 'cause just when you think I'm gonna do this type of record, I go and do something else.

I love that I can play around with all types of music.

I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.

I can show my characteristics and musical colors both as a member of Bigbang and as a solo artist.

The only way I can make sense of my music is to compartmentalize it as opposed to having one band that I have to throw everything into. For me, it's just more fun and more challenging to create little worlds where a song or a piece can make sense.

We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be a rock band if we need to be.

I don't want to be stuck to any specific genre.

I just don't let music genres define me.

I think I'm eclectic and I'm never afraid to not know an artist or a band or an album because I want to hear it.

Musically, my palette is eclectic.